Oren Beck

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• Commented on Man awarded $63k for Ketamine "overdose" at hospital
  Litigation for medical incidents is akin to some aspects of medicine itself. Unintended "side effects." Some that have impacts upon our society we often lose sight of. Beginning with social programs being decimated by litigation's overheads. An example is having...
• Commented on The Masonic Myth, by Jay Kinney -- a no B.S. history of Freemasonry
  The truth or fiction of any group is often questioned. As for WHY? Well,.... That's a thing needing some evaluation. Part centers on Xenophobia. Another is a seemingly legit concern of "Why would a group risk mistrust etc when mere...
• Commented on Battle of The Billboards in LA: Giant Boozy Ladyparts are OK, Criticizing Insurance Companies Ain't.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilson_Bryan_Key...
• Commented on Conservative California legislator gives pornographic account of his multiple affairs (including a lobbyist) into open mic
  Woe betide us if evil in government becomes any less fumbling than what we've seen here... The starkly incomprehensible things to me? It's not just that his 100% approval rating is honestly true for his supporters. It's that it will...
• Commented on UK police watchdog finally gets off its butt to investigate terrorism detention-and-search of children, theft of electronics
  Quid Custodiet... Is deader than Common Sense....
• Commented on How foreclosures breed mosquitoes
  Q: what do skeeters and the subprime lending criminals have in common.. A: They're both bloodsuckers needing control measures. Then again? We CAN exploit those pool's thriving ecosystems. To reward the the worst offenders in the artificially orchestrated and arguably...
• Commented on Harvard Crimson runs ad for Holocaust denier
  There's a word we've forgotten. Krystallnacht As an experiment of truly shocking reality validation- ask the next 5 people you dare if they know the word. Then break out in a cold grim sweat. If WE forget? Ads of denial...
• Commented on Radical ideas to prevent global warming disaster
  Folks- we literally *DO NOT KNOW* enough yet to even begin laying out a predictable model. It's become fashionable to overlook or even deny the reality of how little accurate data we have. Well, It's more a set of cases...
• Commented on Scavenging power from trees
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleve_Backster...
• Commented on Wikileaks publishes large cache of US neo-Nazi group's emails
  The very reason for the First Amendment being made first is self evident. Speaking freely can be our best antidote to verbal poisons. Speaking truth to displace lies....
• Commented on Dark Carnival of the Soul: Gathering of the Juggalos 2009
  Ok- in the interest of fairness. Research the ICP lyrics. Think about the messages in them. Be Very Afraid. As any one NOT concerned about the messages in those lyrics becoming acceptable conduct scares me. The 1st magic concept here...
• Commented on Dark Carnival of the Soul: Gathering of the Juggalos 2009
  In my limited experience with ICP and their "fans" the entire scene reminds me of my grandfather telling me: There is no bottom. The lyric sensibility of what few ICP compositions I had read was vile. I read them because...
• Commented on Bob Dylan mistaken for hobo, 40 years after Woodstock
  This may have been the incident that causes Central World's to issue a prohibition against even emulation of Bob. Yeah, being a Dylanist could be an embarrassing thing on some worlds. Back in our mundane world, I have a few...
• Commented on "Satan's Ice Cream Truck" prowls Los Angeles
  Killer Klowns FEAR Ice Cream Trucks......
• Commented on Customizable ceramic kitchen radio
  Neat- there's some room for exploiting properties of the material. Like using the radio as a whiteboard with proper wipeable markers. So the cooking person in that kitchen could announce their meal plan......
• Commented on Accused Florida man says his cat downloaded child porn, not him.
  If he's guilty? Then perhaps his never seeing daylight again would be a Very Deserved Thing. If not? then we may end up asking: "How do we balance child protection against maintaining the rule of justice? I thought we needed...
• Commented on Birthers glom on to fake Kenyan birth certificate.
  Forgeries and Frauds tend to be inherently proof of mental deficit on their creator's part. Primarily due to the fact that if it's found out as a fraud- the perp was not smart enough to pull it off. Though there...
• Commented on How-To: Rubber hose chair
  It's an EXCELLENT initial design! And in no way should it be thought of as incorrect. It's just that, as with all initial designs there's margin of tradings. Trading making it at all for obsessive recalculating that never makes a...
• Commented on Desperate-to-leave LinkedIn users rename accounts "delete delete delete"
  An example of how the "Social Networking" sites often are made of Pure Hard Fail was in the "Profiles" setup.. The site in question simply had NO way to list one's "Dating Status" as not dating/married. Though it easily could...
• Commented on Special Experimentation Zones to solve big problems?
  It's a pre-ordained "Train Wreck" if/when such projects attract the unethical. Arguing further definitions usually de-evolves into self rhetorical debates. All centering on a few "should be simple" facts. The trump card being that- absent common sense, any such experiment...
• Commented on Rosie Hardy (photography)
  This is how "Terrorism" gets used to justify simply *ANYTHING* There's a slightly less than Zero chance of a photo ban preventing a "Terrorist" from getting a photo. There's a 100% chance of avoidable Very Bad Things from anti-photo enforcers...
• Commented on Countrywide founder accused of insider trading
  By one application of consequential logic, these "crimes" would warrant extended prison time. For sheer brass balls if nothing else. And were the jury of his "peers?" The trial might have to be in a prison after all. At least...
• Commented on Crazy French copyright law translated to English
  No one is innocent....
• Commented on Krassner: Stewart was right the first time
  War doesn't determine who is right, just who is left....
• Commented on San Francisco Muni begins to enforce imaginary no-photos policy
  There is a reason to consider what motivates such arbitrary photo prohibitions being fabricated. A camera can indeed be considered a weapon. Used by repressive government against citizens. Or used by citizens against repression......
• Commented on US customs officials think famous pianist's piano has funny smelling glue, so they destroy it
  Separate the issues and then rational handling becomes "less impossible" As in : A performer appears to demonstrate free political speech. A government agency appears as if it uses poorly defined logic to declare something as warranting destruction. Persons with...
• Commented on Can scavenger died wealthy
  We've several sorts of idea fail here. The initial "as reported" story was a simple human interest piece with amusing perceptual hooks. None of which seem to me inherently needing political fails hung on them. Social ones, yeah- they fit....
• Commented on Can scavenger died wealthy
  Thrifts of the most unappreciated sort are stunningly enriching over enough time. A can of store brand coffee Vs the trendylatte. The cow juice in that homelatte being also a store brand bought with coupon savings if your state allows....
• Commented on Excursion to the Center of the Earth
  QRSS can send data over miles of damp string. Does a physical probe really need to go there when remote sensing might do?...
• Commented on AT-AT anatomy tee
  There's a "Fork between the Compulsive Canon following crowd and "Everyone Else" So while some things may take that noncanon fork, let's judge them on their own merit. As much joy lives in the orbit called "Canon be fracked,it looks...